Peach's Birthday Cake
Appears in	Mario Party Mario Party Superstars
Difficulty	★★ (Mario Party) ★★★☆☆ (Mario Party Superstars)
Availability	Default
Description	"Use your Star Power to finish making this delicious cake."
Music sample Mario Party: Mario Party Superstars: Mario Party Superstars (Homestretch):

“Play on top of a giant birthday cake! Plant "Strawberry Seeds" to stealStars from the first rival to land on thatspace.”

—Mario Party instruction booklet^[1]

“Today there's a party! This is the top of a big birthday cake! It looks delicious, but it just doesn't have enough decorations. Everybody, add more decorations to the cake, and help finish it! Use Strawberries to decorate it, and something good may happen.”

—Koopa Troopa,Mario Party

Peach's Birthday Cake is aboard inMario Party andMario Party Superstars.

Overview[edit]

The board inMario Party Superstars

Peach's Birthday Cake isPrincess Peach's board, taking place on a two-layered giantcake appearing to be of strawberry and chocolate flavors. The cake was made by Peach,^[2] and it has a "Happy Birthday" message on top inMario Party only. Players move around the board clockwise. There are severalHappening Spaces on the floor. TheStar Space is fixed atop the cake. There are large decorative objects of the five cast members ofMario Party, except Peach, shown in a bowl of almonds in the original game. A choco stick is used to cross over to a yellow pudding, a detour from theStar Space leading toBowser, later changed inMario Party Superstars to a quicker albeit riskier route to the Star Space as well as having Bowser on a green and vanilla cookie sandwich. Players can go on the upper level of the cake using a "bridge," specifically made as pink and vanilla cookie sandwiches inMario Party Superstars as well as having two separate entrances and exits. BothMario Party andMario Party Superstars do not have anyBoo Space, unlike other boards in both games, with theMario Party Superstars version also being the only without anyItem Spaces.

Players explore the area differently between the games. TheStart Space in theMario Party version features players starting from a patch on the first layer and going clockwise.Mario Party Superstars changes the Star Space to a stack of plates, and players go counterclockwise, having to cross over to the main cake from a strawberry sugar wafer cookie.

In the ending ofMario Party, the winner'sStars combine to form a large Star that lights up the cake. The first three players are atop the cake, but the last-place player is attacked by aPiranha Plant, whichMario Party Superstars changes to show Piranha Plants sprouting to chew on the losers before spitting them out.

Events[edit]

Wario is given Bowser's Cake inMario Party Superstars

• Players who reachGoomba are forced to participate in theFlower Lottery by paying tenCoins, or all of them if they have a lower number. The player chooses one of four seeds, which are colored red, blue, yellow, and green inMario Party respectively though theMario Party Superstars version gives them different sizes. The actual difference is that one hasBowser's face imprinted inside, but the other three each have Toad's face (changed to pink flowers inMario Party Superstars). Choosing a seed with Bowser's face means that the player "wins" and may continue to Bowser, also resetting the Flower Lottery, but choosing any other seed means the player "loses" and proceeds to the Star, or to return to the beginning inMario Party Superstars, as the Flower Lottery comes after the Star Space.
  • Upon meeting Bowser, the player loses 20 coins and gets hit by a bogusBowser Cake. InMario Party Superstars, Bowser sometimes gives aCursed Dice Block for 11-20 coins, but the last-place player always gets 5 coins from Bowser.

• From aHappening Space, a player can pay 30 Coins to plant a Strawberry Seed (replaced by aPiranha Pod inMario Party Superstars) that forms into aPiranha Plant. It takes away a Star from any opponent who lands on the space and gives it to the other player, though the Piranha Plant disappears after doing so and does nothing if the opponent has no Stars.Mario Party Superstars allows players to plant a smaller Piranha Plant for 5 Coins, stealing Coins instead. If a player lands on a space with their Piranha Plant or cannot afford to add one to an empty space, nothing occurs. InMario Party Superstars, the player does get coins from their Piranha Plant, and they can upgrade it to one that steals a Star, if they can afford it.
• Mario Party Superstars has a Happening Space near the shop where a player can slide down a wafer bridge and bypass the Flower Lottery.

Spaces[edit]

Mario Party[edit]

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Blue Spaces	28
Red Spaces	4
Happening Spaces	14
! Spaces	2
Mini-Game Spaces	2
Mushroom Spaces	6
Bowser Spaces	2
Total of Spaces	58

Mario Party Superstars[edit]

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Blue Spaces	21
Red Spaces	6
Event Spaces	11
Chance Time Spaces	2
VS Spaces	2
Lucky Spaces	9
Bowser Spaces	2
Total of Spaces	53

Item Shop[edit]

The Item Shop only appears inMario Party Superstars.

Item	Cost	Notes
Mushroom	3 coins
Cursed Dice Block	3 coins
Double Dice	5 coins
Warp Block	7 coins
Triple Dice	10 coins	Only available after shop inventory is updated.
Custom Dice Block	12 coins

Gallery[edit]

Mario Party[edit]

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  Logo

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  Board selection icon

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  The map'scast artwork

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  The board without spaces

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  The introduction's background

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  The introduction

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  Starting area

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  Mario moving

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  Luigi moving

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  Wario moving

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  Peach moving

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  Luigi receiving Bowser's Cake

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  The board's candles lit in the background

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  The candles lit during the ending

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  The ending's background

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  The ending

Mario Party Superstars[edit]

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  Logo

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  Logo (no drop shadow)

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  Title screen artwork

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  Peach winning the board (Pre-release)

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  Wario receives the unlucky flower

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  The ending photo for the board

Quotes[edit]

• "Princess Toadstool made this cake. What do you think? Isn't it cute?"
• "It looks like there is going to be some kind of party here. What kind of party? I don't even know that."
• "I wonder if there are any more party-like decorations around here somewhere?"
• "That'd be great if it's a fun party. Oh! Now..., I'm getting excited!"
• "The party will be starting soon. Won't you decorate the cake? It seems like it's missing something..."
• "Big, beautiful, shiny decorations..., I think I know what it needs!"
• "That Piranha Plant has a hungry look in its eye." - If a player lands on a Happening Space that has a Piranha Plant they own
• "Since you don't have a Star, the Piranha Plant won't bother you." - If a player with no Stars lands on a Happening Space owned by another player

Names in other languages[edit]

Notes[edit]

• The cake has more whipped cream modeled after the turrets ofPeach's Castle inMario Party Superstars.
• The music theme of Peach's Birthday Castle has a rendition of part of theSuper Mario Bros.Ground Theme.
• Toad's mention of "Princess Toadstool"^[2] is one of three games to use both names of Peach, besidesSuper Mario 64 andMario Party 2.

References[edit]

• Cakes
• Food areas
• Mario Party boards
• Mario Party Superstars boards

• Articles with unsourced foreign names